Concert and Reading
Spaziergänge ins Niemandsland
An afternoon with the poet Lutz Seiler and the composer Steffen Schleiermacher
World Premiere
An afternoon with writer Lutz Seiler and Leipzig composer and pianist Steffen Schleiermacher: an encounter between contemporary poetry and New Music. Lutz Seiler, born in Gera, is one of the most fascinating German authors of his generation. His narrative Turksib, a story about an inhabitant of the GDR who travels by train through the radioactively contaminated Soviet steppe, was critically acclaimed and won the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 2007. Seiler’s powerful lyric meets with the rhythmically expressive and intensely sonorous music of Schleiermacher. The event will include a first performance of the song cycle Spaziergänge ins Niemandsland (Strolls into No Man’s Land), set to music by Schleiermacher and featuring baritone Holger Falk and members of the Ensemble Avantgarde.
Steffen Schleiermacher
Gnaden Los for piano and percussion (1997)
Lutz Seiler
Reading
Steffen Schleiermacher
Tache for flute, piano and percussion (2007)
Lutz Seiler
Reading
Lutz Seiler / Steffen Schleiermacher
Spaziergänge ins Niemandsland
for baritone, flute, pianor, percussion and tape (2008) WP/CW Siemens Arts Program
Lutz Seiler reading
Steffen Schleiermacher composition
Holger Falk baritone
Steffen Schleiermacher piano
Ralf Mielke flute
Stefan Stopora percussion
A project series of Siemens Arts Program.
In cooperation with MaerzMusik | Berliner Festspiele.
Recording for Kulturradio of the rbb, broadcastings on 7 and 9 July from 21–22 hrs in Musik der Gegenwart